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that is not a good purpose, it is evil because the means are evil. the ends do not justify the means and vice versa.
His INTENTIONS might have been good (in small parts), but his means were horrific! So the whole act of trying to make Germany great was horrific.
Reason would tell Hitler that it is not in his best interest to start a war, which he knew would happen. Reason would have told him he would lose eventually (it was certaintly very evident during the war, particulary the later parts).
Rand was partially inspired in her early years by a SMALL PART of Neitsches work, ie the part that glorifys man as a noble being, but not really much of the rest of it. She came to realise that how Neitsche proposed to act on hi beleifs were terrible, and that she was looking at a far too narrow aspect of his work.
that is not a good purpose, it is evil because the means are evil. the ends do not justify the means and vice versa.
His INTENTIONS might have been good (in small parts), but his means were horrific! So the whole act of trying to make Germany great was horrific.
Reason would tell Hitler that it is not in his best interest to start a war, which he knew would happen. Reason would have told him he would lose eventually (it was certaintly very evident during the war, particulary the later parts).
Rand was partially inspired in her early years by a SMALL PART of Neitsches work, ie the part that glorifys man as a noble being, but not really much of the rest of it. She came to realise that how Neitsche proposed to act on hi beleifs were terrible, and that she was looking at a far too narrow aspect of his work.
